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Newspaper
Brandon News
Location
Brandon, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1908
Page
7
A collage of quotation panels and self help lines, featuring a playful mock dialogue about age and rank, headache cures with Acetanilid replacement, teething syrup promises, and moral aphorisms. It resembles a newspaper entertainment page with brief jokes and ads.
An ad heavy page extols Mitchells Eye Salve for various eye diseases and Hall s Catarrh Cure as a universal remedy with a $100 reward for failure. It lists other health products and includes a humor column about army athletics and a dialogue on personal life and choice.
Remarkable daily happenings noted as not miraculous. A coffee drinker suffers spells of unconsciousness, improves after switching to Postum eight months ago. Sees better sleep and health, now drinks Postum exclusively at age seventy, friends hail the change. Letter attributed to Postum Co. Battle Creek Michigan with a plug for The Road to Wellville.
New York financier Nathan Straus, head of the Democratic business league, charged Republican treasurer George R. Sheldon with lying over a Wall Street levy to fund the Republican National Committee. Sheldon denied the accusation, calling all such claims false and offered to present evidence to a Republican committee.
The cabinet spent three hours Saturday discussing politics with Ohio given strong attention. They agreed Newark was safe and would be safer after the Madison Square Garden Republican meeting. A guarded White House note indicated the invitation to speak there had been declined for the President, though a later hint suggested he might accept.
The National Democratic Club arranges a large October 26 event in New York City with a 5:30 pm reception at the Fifth Avenue clubhouse followed by a 6:30 pm dinner for about one hundred guests. Afterward, guests escort Bryan in a Fifth Avenue procession to Madison Square Garden for his address as torches light Fifth Avenue Square.
Turin reports the Duke of the Abruzzi will soon depart for the United States. Household secrecy surrounds the trip while jewelry purchases and wedding gifts are noted. In Richmond Virginia, J. B. Judd, a wealthy New Yorker, died from a beverage containing ace tanilid, in a poisoning case.
Washington reports the president will refrain from interfering in elections while reserving the right to state facts about any man's acts. The remark was issued at the White House to Edgar Young of the Bridgeport Post after a Saturday meeting.
The National Convention of the Parmers Union in Fort Worth, September 3, adopted this cotton bagging. Made entirely of cotton, it reduces bale weight by nine pounds per bale and may boost a market for over 250000 bales of low grade cotton. Textile Mills Corp of New Orleans offers full details.
A city mission recounts a severely scarred young woman afflicted by scabies and rheumatism, who improved after seven weeks of care and a Cuticura treatment including Soap, Resolvent, and Ointment. Laura Jane Bates of New York signed the testimonial dated March 11, 1907.
The Well-Informed world prefers the honest laxative known for gentle yet prompt relief. The California Fig Syrup Co. touts its Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna as safe for family use, manufactured in California and sold by leading druggists at fifty cents per bottle.
Two bronze tablets will be placed in Brandywine Park driveway Wilmington Del one commemorates a Civil War scene with McKinley as a corporal giving water to troops at the front another shows the moment in bronze The New York Tribune notes the incident. Also mentions a Kentucky woman praising Dean's Kidney Pills and a bookstore joke about Dante's Inferno.
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